Getting Started: More about New Literacies

Searching for New Literacy Classrooms
This site defines New Literacies and provides a list of characteristics of classrooms that incorporate new literacies.

http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/kist/index.html
Center for the Study of Children, Youth, and Media
This site gives you a brief description of programs that are helping children acquire new literacy skills as they investigate issues important to their lives.
http://www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk/theme.asp?ThemeType=New%20Media&TableName=Overview&RowID=5

Teacher Planning & Implementation of New Literacy Projects

In Time: Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education
At this site you can see how teachers are integrating new literacies into their content areas. You can browse video examples by subject or grade level.
http://www.intime.uni.edu/
Filmmaking Across the Curriculum
http://www.acmi.net.au/5B74CECD3BE94E00BF511EB69DC00086.htm

Examples of Student Work

Digital Media & Digital Storytelling
These sites provide examples of how students are integrating digital media to compose multi-modal compositions and bring issues in their local communities into the classroom.
Multimedia Maps
http://kidsown.ie/mmm/book/index.html
Centre for Digital Story Telling
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=3
Streets Full of Stories
http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/eas/index.html
Screen It 2006 Winner’s Gallery
http://www.acmi.net.au/screen_it_2006_winners.htm
Screen It 2005 Winner’s Gallery
http://www.acmi.net.au/screen_it.htm
I Served in the American Civil War
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=178
WebQuests
These sites provide [...]

Group 5: A Focus on Children’s Literature

Nappy Hair Controversy 
http://www.carolivia.org/nappyhair/book.html
http://www.adversity.net/special/nappy_hair.htm

Group 4: One Teacher’s Practice

Embracing Ebonics & Teaching Standard English: An Interview with Oakland Teacher Carrie Street
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/12_01/ebsecret.shtml

Group 3: Exploring Delpit’s Perspective (What should teachers do?)

Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/12_01/ebdelpit.shtml

Group 2: The Oakland School District

Should black English be considered a second language? (reaction to Oakland, CA, school district making Ebonics a second language)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19082465.html

Ebonics controversy of bilingualism in Oakland, California
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_n24_v13/ai_20055255

Group 1: Education Policy and Controversy

NCTE: On the Students’ Right to Their Own Language
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/lang/107502.htm?source=gs
Opinion: Ebonics Slang No Substitute for Standard English
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVKingEbonics802.html
Language Varieties—Classroom Tips
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/tips.html

Understanding Issues Related to Children in Poverty

National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/
Low Wage America
http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1076
Making Ends Meet
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/13/reviews/010513.13gallagt.html
Profiles of Low-Wage America
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/low_wage/

Myths and Stereotypes about People in Poverty

Myths & Facts about Poverty and Welfare
http://www.alabamapoverty.org/myths.html
A Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/fram212.shtml
Hidden Rules
http://www.ext.wvu.edu/cyfar/rut/hiddenrules.htm
Understanding and Working with Children and Adults from Poverty
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:0sRg7o9SfaAJ:homepages.wmich.edu/~ljohnson/Payne.pdf+ruby+payne+hidden+rules&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a